Chapter – 9 Traders, Kings and Pilgrims (Questions and Answers)
Class 6 - Social Science - History - Our Pasts - 1
Q1: What is the silk route? Why did kings want to control the silk route?
Answer: Some people from China went to distant lands on foot, horseback and on camels, carrying silk with them. The paths they followed came to be known as the silk route.
Kings tried to control the silk route because:
a) They could be benefitted from taxes and tributes.
b) They got gifts from traders along the route.
c) They protected the traders who passed through their kingdoms from attack by robbers.
Q2: For what South India was famous for?
Answer: South India was famous for gold, pepper, and precious stones. In the Roman Empire, pepper was valued so much that it was known as black gold. So, traders carried many of these goods to Rome in ships, across the sea, and by land in caravans.
Q3: What kind of pieces of evidence do historians find about trade and trade routes?
Answer: The historians used the following pieces of evidence to find about trade and trade routes:
a) Literary work like Sangam Literature is used to get pieces of evidence about important ports like Puhar.
b) Historians use objects like pottery, bowls and plates found from archaeological sites.
c) South India was famous for gold, spices, pepper, precious stones which were carried by ships and by land in a caravan to Rome.
d) Many Roman gold coins have been found in South India which proved the trade relations between ancient India and Rome.
Q4: What were the sea routes explored by traders?
Answer: Several sea routes were explored by traders and some of these followed the coasts. There were others across the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, where sailors took advantage of the monsoon winds to cross the seas more quickly.
Q5: What is the meaning of the Tamil word 'muvendar' mentioned in Sangam poems?
Answer: Sangam poems mention the muvendar, a Tamil word meaning three chiefs, used for the heads of three ruling families, the Cholas, Cheras, and Pandyas, who became powerful in south India around 2300 years ago.
Q6: Name the country that invented the technique of making silk.
Answer: China
Q7: Why did kings want to control the silk route? Name the dynasty that controlled the silk route and ruled over most of the northern Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia during the first three centuries of the Common Era.
Answer: kings tried to control large portions of the route because they could benefit from taxes, tributes and gifts that were brought by traders travelling along the route. In return, they protected the traders who passed through their kingdoms from attacks by robbers.
The Silk route was controlled by the Kushanas, who ruled over central Asia and northwest India around 2000 years ago.
Q8: Who was the ruler of Kushana who organised a Buddhist council? Name his courtier who composed the Buddhacharita.
Answer: Kanishka was the most famous Kushana ruler, who ruled around 1900 years ago. He organised a Buddhist council, where scholars met and discussed important matters. Ashvaghosha, a poet who composed a biography of the Buddha, the Buddhacharita, lived in his court.
Q9: Name the older as well as the new form of Buddhism.
Answer: Mahayana Buddhism, a new form of Buddhism.
Theravada Buddhism - an older form of Buddhism.
Q10: Name the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who visited the Indian subcontinent in that period.
Answer:
The Chinese Buddhist pilgrims, Fa Xian, came to the subcontinent about 1600 years ago.
Xuan Zang and I-Qing came about 50 years after Xuan Zang. They came to visit places associated with the life of the Buddha as well as famous monasteries.
Q11: What were the reasons the Chinese pilgrims came to India?
Answer: The Chinese pilgrims Fa-Xian, Xuan Zang and I- Qing visited India.
a) They visited the places associated with the life of Buddha and Buddhism.
b) They wanted to learn about the life of monasteries.
c) They carried Buddhist religious books and statues back to China.
Q12: What were the main features of Bhakti?
Answer:
a) It emphasised the worship of a goddess by an individual.
b) It grants permission to all, whether rich or poor, high or low castes, men or women to follow the path of Bhakti.
c) If a devotee worships the chosen deity with a pure heart, the deity will appear in a form in which he/she may desire.
d) Bhakti emphasised devotion and worship rather than the performance of sacrifice.
e) The idea of Bhakti present in Bhagwat Gita spread to different parts of the country.
Q13: Why do you think that ordinary people were attracted to Bhakti.
Answer:
a) Bhakti comes from the Sanskrit word that means ‘to divide or share’. It suggests an intimate, two-way relationship between the deity and devotee.
b) The devotee, known as Bhakta shares his or her chosen deity.
c) Anybody whether rich or poor belonging to the so-called high or low castes, man or woman could follow the path of Bhakti.
d) If a devotee worships the chosen deity with a pure heart, the deity will appear in a form in which he/she may desire.
e) The bhakti is directed towards Bhagwat which means one who possesses and shares Bhaga (good fortune or bliss).
Q14: Which commodity from South India was popularly known as black gold?
Answer: Black Pepper
Q15: Name one powerful ruler of the Satvahans dynasty of Western India.
Answer: Gautam Shri Satkarni
Q16: Identify the ruling dynasty that was connected with the following cities.
(a) Kaveripattnam
(b) Madurai
Answer:
(a) Kaveripattnam - Cholas
(b) Madurai - Pandyas
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